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Behind the scenes at DHS with Alejandro Mayorkas

When Alejandro Mayorkas was tapped to run DHS – the now 20-year-old behemoth with 260,000 employees created in the aftermath of 9/11 – Mayorkas...

Political incorrectness is killing comedy

Only one thing separates stand-up comedians from evangelists: humor.

What is Trump afraid of?

The first GOP presidential debate on Aug. 23 is shaping up to be must-see television, one way or another. Front-runner and 45th president Donald Trump may or may not show up.

Chip Roy wants to take down Washington from the inside

Roy’s inability to compromise might as well be seen as a double-edged sword, but he sees it as a net force for good.

These 10 cities stay cool — even in July

If you ever wanted to spend a long weekend in Pittsburgh, now may be the time. Pittsburgh ranks as one of America’s coolest cities in midsummer, with an enviable average July temperature of 73.2 degrees, according to federal weather data. Much of the nation is enduring a dangerous heat wave, breaking records across the Southwest....

Biden’s new student loan relief plan — and its legal challenges — face a long road

President Biden's first student loan forgiveness plan lasted 10 months from its proposal to death by Supreme Court. His next one could take much longer to implement, let alone challenge. The new plan will be subject to a lengthy rulemaking process under the Higher Education Act (HEA), potentially leaving the fate of relief up in...

Harvard ‘alien hunter’ UFO claims grab attention ahead of House hearing  

Avi Loeb, a Harvard physicist, believes that he found fragments of alien technology on the ocean floor off the coast of Papua New Guinea. Loeb, who calls himself the alien hunter of Harvard, went to the region searching for bits of a rare meteor, one that formed outside our solar system and reportedly crashed in...

Trump’s GOP primary rivals ramp up pressure on him to debate

Former President Donald Trump’s rivals are upping the pressure on him to take part in next month’s GOP primary debate, seeking to draw the front-runner onto a crowded stage as they look to put a dent in his polling lead. Trump has repeatedly signaled he is leaning against attending the first debate, scheduled for Aug....

White House gets top AI companies to commit to responsible development

The Biden administration has secured voluntary commitments geared at managing the risks posed by artificial intelligence (AI) from seven top companies, the White House has announced. Amazon, Anthropic, Google, Inflection, Facebook parent company Meta, Microsoft, and OpenAI have made the voluntary commitments, which include a pledge to develop mechanisms of watermarking to help users determine...

In whistleblowers, Democrats see GOP hypocrisy on IRS

​House Democrats are blasting Republicans this week with charges of hypocrisy for lionizing a pair of IRS whistleblowers while fighting to defund the agency, at large, over allegations of corruption and bias against conservatives. The Democrats say Republicans have undermined the legitimacy of their own star witnesses through months of attacks on the agency they...

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